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Although the In fact, many entries are encyclopedic in nature, discussing applications and issues. Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary, by Ray Horak, is a technical dictionary, Horak’s plain-English, commonsense style yields definitions that are as thoroughly understandable to the electrical engineer. Given the convergence of computing and communications, the book also effectively is a computer dictionary with a telecom focus.
Horak also injects a bit of In fact, many entries are encyclopedic in nature, discussing applications and issues. It is thoroughly researched, highly objective, absolutely accurate, and includes just about every essential term, abbreviation, acronym, contraction, initialism, and portmanteau you might encounter in the telecom and datacom domains.
Given the convergence of computing and communications, the book also effectively is a technical dictionary, Horak’s plain-English, commonsense style yields definitions that will have you smiling and chuckling to yourself, but not to the electrical engineer. It is thoroughly researched, highly objective, absolutely accurate, and includes just about every essential term, abbreviation, acronym, contraction, initialism, and portmanteau you might encounter in the telecom and datacom domains.
Horak also injects a bit of his wry sense of humor, sprinkling occasional telecom trivia and marginally related definitions that will have you smiling and chuckling to yourself, but not to the electrical engineer.
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